fled Tuesday from Santiago Canyon College<\/a> while on a court-approved academic furlough from a juvenile probation facility, according to the Orange County Probation Department.<\/p>\nA juvenile court granted a furlough for Aguilar in February, allowing him to leave custody weekly to attend college courses, officials said.<\/p>\n
But probation officials had asked the court to revoke the arrangement several days ago after what they described as potential violations. No details were provided.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn March 10, 2026, Jose Angel Aguilar, a youth wearing a GPS device and on a court-ordered furlough, cut off his GPS device and absconded while attending classes at Santiago Canyon College,\u201d the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Aguilar had been serving time in an Orange County juvenile facility for a murder committed in 2021, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The community college\u2019s District Safety & Security office issued a RAVE Alert out of an abundance of caution, said Eugene Fields, a public information officer for Santiago Canyon College.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no identified threat to the campus community, and campus operations continued normally,\u201d Fields said. <\/p>\n
The college is reviewing coordination and notification procedures related to the program and will continue working with appropriate partners to support campus safety, according to Fields. <\/p>\n
Probation officials said they requested the court vacate the furlough program on March 6, but the request was not approved before Aguilar fled.<\/p>\n
The incident has drawn concern from some local officials.<\/p>\n
Orange County Supervisor Don Wagner said he first heard about the educational furlough program when he learned Aguilar had cut off his ankle monitor and fled.<\/p>\n
The county has limited authority over the program because decisions about educational furloughs are made by the courts, according to Wagner.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had no say. It\u2019s state law and the decisions come from the court,\u201d Wagner said.<\/p>\n
Wagner said he has spoken with the Orange County district attorney about reviewing the program and is exploring whether legislation could update or potentially eliminate it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope they rethink the program,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t like the risk it puts my community at.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have caught a convicted murderer who was on probation but cut off his GPS ankle monitor and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[100135,163,165,164,6577,6054,4573,8901,100136,100138,100137,4456,45952,100139,17368,4576,36425,100140],"class_list":["post-218547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-aguilar","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-authority","tag-class","tag-community-college","tag-custody","tag-eugene-fields","tag-furlough-program","tag-gps-ankle-monitor","tag-incident","tag-juvenile-court","tag-orange-county-college","tag-probation","tag-program","tag-santiago-canyon-college","tag-wagner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}